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artifex  ·  4498 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The outrageous subsidies to religion in America

This is a false interpretation, and not one the courts have historically given.

The courts view taxation as a form of control (as the founders did - which is why there was, as you say, no income tax).

If you were to tax a church, you'd be "prohibiting the free exercise thereof" since taxation is a control, and thus, in violation of the First Amendment.